Modern Pain - Peace Delusions12" Vinyl

Modern Pain's Peace Delusions is described by its creators' peers as "if In Utero was a hardcore punk record." But even that might be underselling the Dallas, Texas band's first full-length. Peace Delusions resembles a golden artifact unearthed from the '80s American hardcore underground, harnessing the unbridled aggression of groundbreaking acts like SSD, Poison Idea and Infest and filtering it through the caustic, ashy atmospheres and unfettered noise rock of Texan predecessors Scratch Acid and the Jesus Lizard, as well as Moss Icon's murky, wordy pathos. It's an unpredictable, nerve-damaging half-hour that remains at its core a spacey, noisy punk record above all.